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Early Eighteenth
Century Palatine EmigrationA British
Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Storesby Walter Allen Knittle, Ph.D.Department of HistoryCollege of the City of New YorkPublished Philadelphia, 1937

Preface

This
monograph is written from the view-point of the British government. This attitude
is not only proper because the so-called "American" colonies were
then British in name as well as in fact, but also because the Palatine emigration
was carried out under the auspices of the British government. Indeed, the
British government itself engaged in the manufacture of naval stores, putting
the Palatines to work at its own expense, consonant with the mercantilist
aims of the times. The subject therefore may be described as remarkable because
in dealing with the Palatines the British government exhibited in practice
the mercantilist theories on immigration, naval stores and colonies.

This
study would have been impossible without the aid and encouragement of many
scholars. Acknowledgment in this brief space can be made only to a few of
the many. Important suggestions and advice were given generously by President
Dixon Ryan of Union College, Professor Charles M. Adnrews of Yale University,
Professor Robert G. Albion of Princeton University, Mr. Victor H. Paltsits
of the New York Public Library, Mr. Albert Cook Myers of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania and Mr. Henry S. Borneman, Secrtary of the Pennsylvania-German
Society.

I
Am particularly indebted to Professor William Thomas Morgan of Indiana University,
who gave me my first graduate training and who introduced me to my present
subject. He has been my most active and interested contributor. To Professor
W. T. Root of Iowa University I must express my thanks for an amicable division
of this subject with which one of his graduate students was engaged. To Professor
Edward P. Cheyney I am grateful for sponsoring this study before the faculty
of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Henry
R.Mueller of Muhlenberg College, whom I am so fortunate to count among my
teachers, has given the manuscript the benefit of careful reading. Dr. Dison
Ryan Fox has not only extended to me the advantage of his editorial wisdom,
but he has also written the introduction to this book. To him I am deeply
grateful.

I
must also express my appreciation of the great patience and many courtesies
extended to me by the librarians of these institutions: the University of
Pennsylvania Library; the Columbia University Library; Library of the College
of the City of New York; the Historical Society of Pannsylvania; the Holland
Society of New York; the Huntington Library of San Marino, California; the
Widener Library of Harvard University; the Yale University Library; the Library
of Congress; the Pennsylvania State Library; the Moravian Library at Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania; the Morgan Library, New York City; and the New York State Library;
the English Public Record Office and the British Museum. I wish that I could
acknowledge the many others who contributred, but the list would seem endless.
To them I express my sincere appreciation.

I
am also grateful for a grant-in-aid from the Oberlaender Trust Fund of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (Dr. Wilbur K. Thomas, Director), which permitted me to conclude
satisfactorily my research in Ireland and England. This organization of American
citizens also contributed toward the publication of this volume.

The
errors, which I hope are few, are necessarily of my own making. The interpretation
must be attributed to me only.